Massive increase in right-wing crimes in Austria | Monitoring Antisemitism Worldwide

As an answer from the Ministry of the Interior to the SPÖ spokeswoman for memory culture, Sabine Schatz, shows, there is an urgent need for action against right-wing extremism. While, according to the answer to the query, racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic crimes across Austria decreased in 2019 compared to the previous year, there has been a further increase in right-wing extremist crimes from 732 in 2018 to 797 in 2019. “ the abuses and crimes are male, ”said Schatz, who sees the minister for women, the minister of the interior and the minister of justice in this connection.